From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 17 16:44: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gw.errno.com (node-d1d4bd7a.powerinter.net [209.212.189.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48D2537B8AB for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:44:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from MELANGE (melange.errno.com [209.212.166.36]) by gw.errno.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id QAA09455; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:39:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <0d9e01bf79a8$a957e680$0132a8c0@MELANGE> From: "Sam Leffler" To: "Marco van de Voort" , References: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:19:21 EST." <200002172219.RAA22889@virtual-voodoo.com> <20000217233207.8488E2E804@hermes.tue.nl> Subject: Re: 64bit OS? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:39:48 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco van de Voort" To: Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 3:30 PM Subject: Re: 64bit OS? > > > Which leads to my potentially ignorant question: Where is FreeBSD > > > w/regards to running on the Itanium (or other 64bit chips)? > > > > Waiting for somebody at Intel to give us either hardware or simulator > > time. Without either of those things, "working on" Itanium support > > is a pretty pointless exercise. > > Just a thought: > > One could use the released 64-bit Itanium gcc, create a i386->itanium > crosscompiler, and start preparing some stuff? > Marco van de Voort (MarcoV@Stack.nl) > > The difficult bits rarely have anything to do with compilers and such (especially given that most of the code has been through a 64-bit port to the alpha). The system-mode pieces of IA-64/Merced were not public until recently; I noticed the full document set just became available on the intel web site this week. There's also the Linux port that was posted to the web in the past week or two; that should show what's needed for a FreeBSD port. Of course, as was mentioned before, without hardware or a simulator it's pretty pointless to put much effort into something like this. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message